“Success is the power to go from failure to failure with out shedding enthusiasm”, stated Winston Churchill. These phrases drive ‘Election King’ Ok Padmarajan, for whom shedding is successful. The 61-year previous unbiased candidate is now gearing up for 3 election battles from two Southern Indian states – Tamil Nadu and Kerala. His motto – Shedding, simply as he has been since 1988 when he first contested within the polls.
Ask him the names of leaders he’s contested in opposition to, and the checklist goes “Vajpayee, Narasimha Rao, Manmohan Singh, Jayalalithaa, Karunanidhi, AK Antony, Yeddyurappa, SM Krishna, APJ Abdul Kalam, Ramnath Kovind, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi”. This time round, for the Meeting polls in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, as ordinary, he’s picked the most important names to contest in opposition to – Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ok Palaniswami (who’s contesting in his dwelling turf Edappadi) and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who’s contesting from Dharmadom in Kannur, moreover Mettur Meeting constituency in Tamil Nadu, the place Padmarajan resides.
After having filed his 217th nomination to face the polls, Padmarajan is a contented man, hopeful of efficiently shedding this time as properly. His goal is to show that even widespread residents could be within the ballot fray – whether or not the submit up for grabs is that of a Member of Legislative Meeting, Member of Parliament and even the President of India.
Having spent over Rs 50 lakhs, for contesting and repeatedly shedding on the polls over the past 33 years, Padmarajan has made it to a number of report books, together with the Limca Ebook of Data.
“I’m the one Election King on the planet” Padmarajan proclaims proudly. He’s additionally approached India’s Election Fee to register his social gathering – the Election King Failure social gathering. He hopes that his streak of losses will someday get him a spot within the Guinness World Data.